# Can people REALLY levitate?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-people-really-levitate/39845>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 5, 2000, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-people-really-levitate/39845 "2000-11-05T21:34:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-people-really-levitate/39845/21 "2000-11-07T10:38:00Z")

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> \*Originally posted by kgriffey79 \*  
> A television program documented levitation.

No it didn’t.  
Neither is a man saying ‘I have been abducted by aliens’ or ‘Elvis is alive’ evidence of anything.

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> \*Originally posted by kgriffey79 \*I really don’t believe in levitation, it seems very improbable.

Science has documented the existence of gravity. Science has NEVER seen any opposing force produced by psychic power that could negate gravity.  
The only thing that is certain is that you’ll be asked for money to ‘learn’ the ‘technique’.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-people-really-levitate/39845/22 "2000-11-07T16:05:00Z")

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Many years back, I bought a book, How to Levitate. It was very interesting. It gave the instructions on proper breathing to access your life energy. It’s really pretty simple but one does have to be very careful about changing their breathing pattern.

I think that ballet people & basketball players attempt leaps that seem next to impossible without some possible levitation…

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**Author:** ![egkelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/db5fbb/32.png) [@egkelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/egkelly)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-people-really-levitate/39845/23 "2000-11-07T16:23:33Z")

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Many years ago I read about the monk (Joeseph of Cupertino), and italian monk of the 18th century. Supposedly, he would levitate while serving mass, and his levitations were witnessed by the philosopher W.G. Leibnitz (inventor of the calculus). Another bigwig who saw Joesph flying arounf was the Duke of brunswick. However, contemporary accounts of the man are very rare-does anybody know what happened to this guy?

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